The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and pro...(展开全部)

叶文心，早年毕业于台湾大学历史系，后赴美深造，1984年获美国伯克利加州大学历史学博士学位。1994—2000年任美国伯克利加州大学中国研究中心主任，现任该校历史系讲座教授暨东亚研究所所长。主要从事中国近现代文化史、社会史、上海都市文化史等方面的研究。英文著作有：The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China，1919-1937 (1990), Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (1996), Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments in the Making of Modern China (2007)等。

In a remarkable example of history as detective work, Brian Martin pieces together the fascinating and complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. Martin sifts through a variety of fragmentary and at times contradictory evidence--from diplomatic dispatches to memoirs to police reports--to produce the most comprehensive account of this chaot...(展开全部)

In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist historiography by scholars who based their opinions primarily on post-1949 writings...(展开全部)

This book recounts one of the most fascinating episodes in the encounter between American and Chinese cultures in the twentieth century, the American attempt to convert the Chinese to Protestantism. China has long been recognized as the largest and most important missionary field for American Protestantism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ever since the fi...(展开全部)

Folk art is now widely recognized as an integral part of the modern Chinese cultural heritage, but in the early twentieth century, awareness of folk art as a distinct category in the visual arts was new. Internationally, intellectuals in different countries used folk arts to affirm national identity and cultural continuity in the midst of the changes of the modern era. In China...(展开全部)

In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has co...(展开全部)

费约翰，澳大利亚拉特罗布大学副校长，亚洲研究系教授，任澳大利亚外交部顾问，澳中委员会主席。本书1996年初版，1998年再版，在欧美政界，读书界均有较大的影响。